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Waiting for Haswell MBP Mega Thread

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Agent-P said:
At least we still got a price drop)
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Did you really? Amazon has been selling the Ivy Bridge models for $1999. They won't be offering a $200 discount on the new models. Let's not confuse MSRP pricing and marketing with real-world numbers...
 
Hmm. No new Mac Mini. And no new Thunderbolt Display.

Anybody have any insight? Is Apple done making monitors? I may be jumping the gun here...

At WWDC, Apple did say "third-party 4K monitors" when talking about the Mac Pro.
 
john123 said:
Great, you can buy me that, because I'd rather have the last generation—especially at the prices for which those will be selling now simply because they're allegedly "older" and "outdated."
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LOL. Even better, I have edu discount - who knows how much student discount will be. I wonder how much SSD and RAM is possible.
 
So no TB2 display (yet)...good to know the Mac Book pro will be upgradeable with TB2...very nice future proof
 
So I have the early 15" that I bought for 1999 with dGPU, I should probably keep it?? I'm rated at 7 hours but I'm sure that'll go up with mavericks install. Seems like dGPU would be better for what I do, auto cad. Any thoughts?
I have 45 day return with best buy.
 
I promise you guys that I won't open this thread with my brand new macbook pro retina!

As a German I'd like to say:

"Mr. Admin, tear down this thread!"

28 years, East Germany was seperated by a Soviet wall, 9 month I was figuratively seperated by a "Waiting for Haswell MBP Mega Thread" from my new rMBP.
 
john123 said:
Great, you can buy me that, because I'd rather have the last generation—especially at the prices for which those will be selling now simply because they're allegedly "older" and "outdated."
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It'll be interesting to see how deep the discounts are considering the price drop on the new models.

Moreover, I'm curious to know whether that $200 price drop is in effect for the 750M-equipped machines too...
 
so am I wrong, or did they take away the dedicated graphics in the macbook pros? Oh man am I glad I did not waste my time waiting for this crap and got a windows laptop instead.
 
jredecop said:
So I have the early 15" that I bought for 1999 with dGPU, I should probably keep it?? I'm rated at 7 hours but I'm sure that'll go up with mavericks install. Seems like dGPU would be better for what I do, auto cad. Any thoughts?
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I'd keep your existing machine, no question, unless we see something in the tech specs that wasn't in they keynote. I have that same model, and money is no object (other than the principle thing), and I don't think I'm going to get a Haswell...
 
I am really bummed that they downgraded from 8GB to 4GB ram on the base 13 retina. Really offsets the price drop as I can't envision not getting 8.
 
john123 said:
Did you really? Amazon has been selling the Ivy Bridge models for $1999. They won't be offering a $200 discount on the new models. Let's not confuse MSRP pricing and marketing with real-world numbers...
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Apple does offer $200 off for students. So for us, it starts at $1799, a great price.

mcarling said:
Congratulations to everyone who waited!
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Thanks, sorry to see you leave the thread midway :(
 
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